KJ4BYI Port Richey D-Star Repeater

This is a little slice of information on the KJ4BYI Digital D-Star Repeater located in Port Richey, FL. This repeater system is pretty much open for all users, however, there is no gateway linking allowed from end users, and the use of verbal communications takes precidenace over non-verbal communications.

Gateway Registration can be done by going to the gateway registration page here.

You can view last RX/TX Information by going to the local dstarmon transmit page here.

Here are some pictures of the site..

This system was 100% funded by the trustee/president/owner of the West Pasco Repeater Group I,Inc.

This is the Repeater Gateway Server, and RP2C Controller.

The server is an IBM x305 running mirrored IDE Drives, this server will be replaced in the next year with a more energy effeciet, and smaller Micro-ATX, at time of writing, I am deciding to go with a Quad Core AMD x64 with 8gigs of Ram, and two 16gb Flash Drives, this server will run on 12volts, and will not require 120volt A/C Power.

This is the UHF Deck running at the stock power output, there is also an Angel Linear 440 Pre-amp on the RX Side.

There is extra TX/RX Filtration on this sytem, as it is colocated with a 100watt 442.650 KG4YZY UHF Repeater that is linked into the NI4CE/r Analog Repeater system.

The output of the repeater is then combined with a APRS Digi and 75 Watt VHF 146.76 Repeater, which then goes into the master grounding/Lightning protection system.

 Then goes up 200 feet to a Telewave Band Splitter, and the VHF is carred off to two Telewave VHF Dipoles, and the UHF is sent to two UHF Telewave Dipoles, I use these same antennas at my home QTH, however, I only use 1 element each.

This is the coverage map for the system, you can get into the system with 5 watt mobile anywhere in the "Green" shaded colors.